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Live Virtual Life To The Fullest With The Sims 3 Generations
EA Play adds life to The Sims 3 this spring with the Generations Expansion pack, letting players explore the stages of virtual life on a much deeper level than ever before. With the Generations Expansion, childhood and the teenage years become much more than stepping stones toward adulthood in The Sims 3. Children will be…
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PopCap’s New Studio Creates One Very Unpleasant Horse
PopCap Games, the creators of small-ish casual games such as Bejeweled and Plants Vs. Zombies, has created a new studio to make games even smaller than those. Unpleasant Horse is one of those games. 4th & Battery is PopCap’s new small games studio, named for the Seattle, Washington intersection where the PopCap headquarters is located.…
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How Powerful Does Your PC Need To Be To Make The Witcher 2 Look This Good?
With only six weeks to go before The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings explodes on the PC gaming scene, CD Projekt Red releases the system requirements for the epic role-playing game, along with some screenshots to show off what you’ll be missing if you don’t meet those requirements. The Witcher was one of the best…
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Buy Dragon Age II, Get Mass Effect 2 Free
BioWare celebrates the success of Dragon Age II by giving fans that purchase and register a copy of the game online before April 30 a free copy of the PC version of Mass Effect 2. How does the offer work? It’s simple! If you’ve already activated the Online Pass that came in your copy of…
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World Exclusive First Look Under the Hood of the Next Unreal Engine
You’ve seen the sexed up trailer showing what games based on Epic’s Unreal Engine will look like in the coming generation. Now join Kotaku and Gizmodo for the world’s first peek at the tools and technology that will be used to create some of the biggest games on every platform from PC to iOS in…
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Aperture Science Introduces The Portal 2 Turret, Consumer Edition
When you’ve got a product that works as well as Portal’s Turrets, you can’t limit them to purely military use. Aperture Science boss Cave Johnson proudly presents the Turret consumer edition, now available in countless designer colors.
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The Past, Present, And Future Of Resident Evil
Has it really been fifteen years since the S.T.A.R.S. team took their first steps inside of a zombie-filled mansion on the outskirts of Raccoon City? This 15th Anniversary video celebrates the past decade and a half of Resident Evil, while giving us a taste of what’s still to come. Man, those original games haven’t aged…
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Brink‘s Special Abilities Make Your Character Even More Special
Now that we’ve gotten to know Brink’s Medic, Soldier, Engineer, and Operative, let’s take a look the special abilities each class can unlock as they progress to make the game feel even more like Team Fortress 2. Brink is a team-based first-person shooter with a slightly exaggerated cartoony vibe and class-based multiplayer progression, so the…
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UK Tabloid Reporting 3DS Backlash; Is Reality Next?
Squawker rag The Sun says a “refund row” is hitting the UK around Nintendo’s 3DS, with “record return levels were reported after thousands suffered headaches and dizziness.” Nintendo says returns “in single figures per retailer.” [The Sun]
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Gamer Problems: Being Stalked By Children
In today’s very special episode of Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Hongo deals with an issue that every gamer faces at some point: Children think we’re pretty damn awesome. I have no problem with most little kids. My cousin’s cousin asked me for my PSN ID because he wanted to add me as a friend on…
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It’s Not A Green Lantern Party Until The Giant Fist Shows Up
Give a man one of the most powerful weapons in the known universe, and he’ll create a giant version of his own hand. These latest screens for Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters summarize mankind’s contributions to the war on interstellar crime. Slated for release a week before the live action Green Lantern flick, Double…
By Mike Fahey
